Comments by "Frederick Miles" (@frederickmiles8815) on "I Drove To The Worst Place In Vermont. This Is What I Saw." video.

  1. I grew up in Rutland: grew up on welfare, shot in the back with a 9mm (wrong time, wrong place), constant domestic violence and surrounded by the drug game - it was a nightmare. Poverty in Vermont is super deep, drugs and alcohol abuse run deep. College / tourism areas are anomalies.
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  2.  @CarolLustgarten  Meh i am lucky enough to be on one end of the bell curve and have a fondness for conflict and violence. Meaning decades later i live in a very affluent suburbs, 3 graduate degrees, career in banking, and a former army officer (3 tours served, background in intel and logistics). But then again I dont know anyone I group up with, most were lost to the ether before they even graduated high school.
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  3.  @sly2772  *its ok to commit crimes if the local, state, or federal government benefits from the crime. I remember as a kid watching my uncle pay off local cops in Rutland on the monthly until they knocked him over. Ask yourself why we have a 'war on drugs' and not a war on 'human trafficking' (slavery).
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  4.  @sharonmanney8363  wrong one - i had no father let alone grandfather with a motorcycle shop.
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  5.  @ianstuart5660  Correct - i worked there in high school but never knew how to ski. In the summer i would rake stones out of the grass that were blown there in the winter by snow blowers. Same concept I suppose as say folks who live in Hawaii or Puerto Rico vs the tourist who go there. For context when i graduated and moved to NYC at 17 - I used to live in a new neighborhood every year. I have seen urban poverty: Marcy, Harlem (115 & Frederick Douglas back in the day), BedSty, etc - rural poverty is much, much worse and no one in America cares. Hence the rise of folks like Trump.
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  6.  CB.PUNISHER.1900  Free state of Texas - one of the best suburbs in America.
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  7.  @audreyarcher7156  near there - but then again its a small town and therefore every street is pretty close to others.
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  8. So true and what makes matters worse is that you just described every University town in modern America.  @SouthCountyGal 
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  9.  @MarkBoissy  Yeah dipshit that is why I make over 200k a year, completed 3 graduate degrees, own Tesla(s), 3 tours served overseas (field grade army officer), and live in one of the best suburbs in America.
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  10. I was born into the 'wrong crowd' lol - mom had me at 15, never knew my dad - grew up on welfare. If it makes you feel better I make north of 200k now, live in one of the nicest suburbs in TX, former army officer - 3 tours served, 3 graduate degrees, decade plus in wholesale banker. Humanity is a bell curve - everyone else I knew from economic level ended up in prison, dead, or remained brutally poor. If I was born in central africa, i would be a warlord, if born into money I would be a master of the universe. @jonathanp1884 
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  11. 100% correct - my stepdad was Trini - he would score in Lawrence and my uncle sold it in VT. Until he went down for manslaughter (although he was just driving and had no clue what happened, did federal time and was deported) and my Uncle de-evolved into a junkie. I used to watch my uncle pay off the local cops and when they finally flipped him, the reported evidence was super light. @four_20hitman___97 
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  12.  @BananaSnail  VT is insanely poor and most of the really bad crime is suppressed by corrupt state actors. I had peers who were badly abused and assaulted the progressives who run the state just cover it up. I had one class mate who was forced to attend therapy with his abuser - both are in prison now (guess for what evil crimes)? Just like anything the far left touch in America - they turned the state to shit.
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  13.  @MelissaRobinson-w8o  its getting worse all over New England, no shelter from coming storm.
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